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English
Phrase
it's a small world
- Used to express surprise at meeting an acquaintance or discovering a personal connection in a distant place or an unexpected context.
1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. , volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, , published 1881, →OCLC, book the fifth (De Stancy and Paula), page 40:“I have met my young photographer,” said De Stancy, cheerily. “What a small world it is, as every busybody truly observes! I am wishing he could take some views for us as we go on; but you have no apparatus with you, I suppose, Mr. Dare?”
Translations
phrase used when meeting an acquaintance or personal connection in an unexpected place or context
- Catalan: el món és un mocador (literally “the world is a handkerchief”)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 好巧 (hǎo qiǎo)
- Finnish: maailma on pieni
- French: le monde est petit (fr)
- German: die Welt ist klein, wie klein die Welt ist, die Welt ist ein Dorf (de) (literally “the world is a village”)
- Hungarian: kicsi a világ
- Italian: il mondo è piccolo, com'è piccolo il mondo, come è piccolo il mondo
- Japanese: 世間は広い様で狭い (せけんはひろいようでせまい, seken wa hiroi yō de semai), 世界は狭い (せかいはせまい, sekai wa semai), 世間は狭い (せけんはせまい, seken wa semai)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: тӱня изи (tüńa izi)
- Polish: jaki ten świat mały
- Russian: мир те́сен (mir tésen, literally “the world is narrow”)
- Spanish: el mundo es un pañuelo (literally “the world is a handkerchief”)
- Swedish: världen är liten
- Tagalog: ang liit ng mundo
- Thai: โลกกลม
- Ukrainian: яка Земля кругла (jaka Zemlja kruhla, literally “how round is the Earth”), тісний світ (tisnyj svit)
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